we're in oswit and we're going to show
you what it looks like because this is
from our point of view this is from our
lens this is not from a textbook this is
actually
real it takes an hour and 50 minutes
from kakow the city center to awit it's
the nearest Big City I just got pooped
on E welcome Paulina Pina oh I saw
something
warm
dang so hot in here too it's like a lot
of flies not a lot of light it's like
just very I mean we know this inhumane
we know this but it's like very
different different to see it with your
own eyes there few windows in this huge
Barrack so imagine you were placed I'm
sure you were a signed bunks you could
sleep on the very
bottom look at this one there's zero
light this one has zero zero light this
one a little bit if the door is open
imagine in winter too it's just like
things in life your realities become
much different no fluffy blankets
here and like this is the only shap you
get like they trees but they're on the
outside there's not one tree or one
Cloud for that matter or one Cloud wind
sorry if you can't hear this one thing
we need to mention when you come to
these kind of places yes the heart is
heavy you're going through the barracks
you're going through the like the
showers that they said were showers that
were actually gas chamber heavy stuff
you go like it's it's a lot to take so
there's aitz one aitz two and then the
third one aitz 3 the first Camp was
known as the laborer Camp so aitz was
where you were taken to physically do
labor this is you're now this is the
main
one look at this like we are the only
ones down here nobody here one thing I
do have to say asz one is an actual
Museum so there are exhibitions with
documents with shoes left behind with
things that prisoners hid that is here
in Ashwood one all the barracks all the
gas Chambers that's going to be at the
other one well there's
here I am moved because it's one thing
to read about this in a textbook but
it's another thing to actually come here
with your own two eyes and see this that
this actually happened it's like when
you're learning this stuff in high
school you don't realize wow I can
actually go there I feel like teachers
aren't encouraging students to actually
see the history they just teach it and
make you read a book and take a test and
then you move on to the next subject and
then it's like that was fun and great
com below cuz I felt like that I feel
like I just learned more in the last 5
hours than I ever did
in my scholing come here first get a
tour guide get here early go over to
biren Buren the one that we're currently
in used to be known as the death camp
we're the kind of people that we would
make a run for we are those people we
would make can but that's what I'm
saying you can't you can't like no
matter what every single angle you look
Barb wires and watchtowers after being
here for months you probably knew which
like angle which angle they could see
from the blind SP one thing notice that
these railroad tracks actually lead you
directly to the underground
extermination chamber which used to be
here however it was blown up with
dynamite because around 1945 when the
Nazis found out that people were
catching on to what they were doing they
tried to get rid of all of the evidence
by blowing it up this was one of the
entrances into the underground gas
Chambers gas chamber in crematorium
where several hundred thousand Jews men
and women and children were murdered by
gas and their bodies burned this is it
they were standing right right here
those women were murdered immediately
from Hungary record says that 1.1
million people were killed here just
here that's only just here in total I
mean they nobody will ever know but it's
between 11 and 14 million they say but
here 1 million that is this is not that
big of a place for 1 million 1 million
that's bigger than the population of
massive places dang and somebody left a
note
this is just bananas like the fact that
you can have something like this going
on for 5
years and nobody knows and nobody tried
to stop it or if they did they failed 5
years like 5 years well they didn't fail
everyone was scared to come home like
it's not that they failed to come get
them it's that like well they didn't
succeed cuz otherwise it they did
succeed because they in 5 years that's
what I'm saying though like 5 years is a
long long long long long time well that
same question are you going to ask
yourself you just going to jump in or
you going to form a
Str like within 5 years so much
destruction happened yeah and like it's
right here like the only way to think
about is it could have been more it
could have been worse so but it could
have been better yeah okay something I
think is really interesting is that when
we learn about this obviously we just
learn they arrive they get killed or
they arrive they work and then they get
killed but I want to know day to day
like what was the day today did they
make friends with some of the guards
like were some of the guards nice did
they have have some joke like were some
people smiling and laughing like did
there needs to be more diversity of the
how the story is told told I need I need
like cuz dayto day a lot of things
happen every day especially when you
don't have technology you don't have
anything to distract yourself you have
to make friends something happened of
that sort also Anne Frank is one of the
most popular stories how many stories
were not told how many stories did how
many Diaries were kept that weren't
released I think is really interesting
too or also how many Diaries were
written and were burned or were ruined
exactly that just the stories never were
told so I think that's what you need to
imagine when you're here it's just
understanding these are human beings
like we are human beings and they were
not treated like human beings we don't
understand that sometimes and when you
come here you're walking in their
footsteps and it it gives you more of a
vivid imagination and and idea of what
was actually happening when you're
walking around the camp you'll see that
there are houses on the outside people
were living in the outskirts of this
Camp so it's like what were your
thoughts what were your you know
opinions of of what was going on another
thing I feel like I never really
question in my history class is like yes
this concentration camp is here but
years of planning probably oh yeah
talking about somebody had to design
this we were literally talking about how
you had to sit some architect had to sit
with a blueprint and design
strategically each Barrack where it
would be placed perfectly strategically
align the watchtowers yeah there are
various
watchtowers and that had been it didn't
just pop out of nowhere the watchtowers
are not just on the on the outside
they're everywhere like there's a
watchtower here there's a watchtower
they're like in every corner every inner
intersection and then that's not to
mention the soldiers that would probably
be marching back and forth and then you
have to ask yourself what were people in
Brazil thinking also there are people
who are relatives of Nazis and what do
they think or what were they thinking
when their relatives were working
there's a lot of things that we don't
really question besides just these are
concentration camps Jews right non-jews
gypsies everybody put together and
exterminate it's too linear right we
need you to comment below what questions
you have about the Holocaust that people
don't really question day to-day or what
answers you may have if you're related
to people that have you know accounts of
what happened okay so let's talk
Logistics about planning your trip here
if I were you I would arrive here early
i' arrive here 8 or 9 and I would go on
a tour I would then go to asz 2 so the
tour is last 3 and 1/2 hours that's why
it's important to get here early when
you go on a tour you're going to get the
stories that we're wondering another
thing is it's not aitz in Polish
it'sin but when you're looking at the
train station don't look for aitz cuz
it's you're not going to owitz is the
German name for it so of course we all
learned that name but o vich is how it's
known to Polish people which is the
town's name so see I think coming here
would be even more fascinating if you're
a German learner right almost all the
official documents are in German
obviously and then they translate it and
the thing about translations is that
sometimes it's not even interpreted prop
lost and it's just not the same you can
get in for free and you can walk around
for free see everything for free you're
going to leave moved yeah like this it's
not it's not even about the free thing
it's like you you came here to come here
you came here to see this I I won't
forget this I definitely won't forget
this